Quark 6.0 and Panther 1

[daviddownsouth]

I recently purchased Quark 6.0 and after experiencing activation problems twice I am now afraid to make the move to Panther. The last time I upgraded to 10.2.8, Quark didn't want to provide me with an activation code. Seems I had already made the request twice in the same month and they were supicious. After raising hell for a few minutes complaining about this crap they relented and gave me the code. I really want to make the move to Panther. I have already had to purchase one "mobile license" from these idiots. But you can only purchase one, after that, to use it on any other machines you've got to purchase the software at full price. What a rip off. I think Quark stinks for creating this problem. Anyone have a solution?

Thanks

 

[Experts]

After you move to panther and install XPress you need to call quark again and specify the reason and then you will get the activation easily. Trust me, without any problem and raising any hell.

 

[DracoMononoki]

OS 10.2.8; Quark 6.0 Suitcase X1
Anyone see this: Certain fonts come up in garbled text on the screen, it looks like syrilic or something...I've seen this problem only in quark...and get this, it prints just fine...a huge problem if I have to edit the text. If you know what's causing this let me know...remember it's not all fonts its only certain ones and certain styles.

 

[tad1952]

I had a conflict with the versions of Adobe Times and Adobe Helvetica I was using - even though FontDoctorX said they were fine.

I spent a few minutes installing & uninstalling some of the versions of Times and Helvetica available on our various computers and finally came up with ones that Quark, Illustrator and Safari are comfortable with. Now they open just fine - no hanging or sudden quitting and the type looks great.

 

[signal49]

DracoMononoki,

I was having problems with certain postscript fonts ( LWFN Type 1 fonts - according to someone from Apple) looking garbled in Quark, but they would print ok. But they also looked "wrong" in Suitcase. I worked with a lady from Apple trying to figure out it was. We deleted a bunch of font cache files and restarted, put the fonts in my system font folder and still had the problem, etc... I ended up having to do an Archive and Install from my system cd. You could call Apple before you do any of that stuff - maybe some of the things that didn't work for me would fix your problem. Also, I had to reinstall all my fonts from their CDs once I was in the clean system... I still get some fonts from clients that are having the problem, but all of mine seem to be fine now.

 

[threezzz]

I had the same problems and found that it was a font cach issue. This link will bring you to a utility that will flush the cach for you.

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?50@@.599f2ee5/4!login=true

 

[tad1952]

I found out yesterday that on the Mac in the Library/Application Support/Adobe/fonts and /fonts/Reqrd folders that I had all sorts of Font lists which were causing a problem with Illustrator (it started getting confused & hanging up or quitting). I deleted them all & restarted Illustrator. It opened properly and created a new list. I was able to open & close Illustrator no problem but after I rebooted, I discovered that another font list was added so I'll have to remember to check after every reboot. Anyway, it's just a stab in the dark, but it's possible this could also be causing a problem with Quark.